Performance Learning Productivity

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Exploiting The Link Between Employee Development & Customer Engagement

Performance Learning Productivity

This post is adapted from a commentary written for the Spark Interactive / ClerkWell 2012 Digital Customer Experience Report – an annual industry report that focuses on customer engagement and how businesses are using digital means to build closer relationships and interact with their consumers.

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

It is worthwhile measuring individual, team and organisational learning and development to understand how we are adapting to change, innovating, improving our customer service, reducing our errors and so on. Customer-facing departments, for example, will regularly collect CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) data.

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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

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Smart companies will adopt radical management, putting the customer in charge and reorganizing work in small teams. Others will be hamstrung with outdated skills, tools and technologies, and will be too slow to adapt. Increasingly, workers will learn their jobs by doing their jobs.

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Less is more: A different approach to L&D in a world awash with information

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Many other organisations have rebuilt their customer service models to encourage user communities to share knowledge about problems, issues and workarounds as they have found the 'wisdom of the crowds' better serves customers than a small, over-burdened customer help line.

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Workplace Learning: Adding, Embedding & Extracting

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Learning is not only embedded in the workflow, but new learning is continually extracted from experiences and exchanges with colleagues, customers and the entire value chain. The model of ‘learn then work’ is replaced here with ‘work then learn, then work in an improved way’.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

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Even if Henry Ford didn’t utter the famous words when asked what he thought his customers wanted (and there’s no evidence he did), history suggests he thought along those lines. Today’s world requires L&D professionals to be agile and support their ‘customers’ in their workflow.

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EVER TRIED TO HIT A MOVING TARGET AT TWENTY PACES WITH A COLT 45?

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The message here is that CLOs and their L&D teams need to get over trying to ‘prove’ their value, and focus instead on keeping their customers satisfied. The value of L&D will be determined by its stakeholders and customers, not by L&D itself. L&D services are no exception to this rule.

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